The Cultural and Creative Industries: Organisational and Spatial Challenges to their Governance

This paper is intended to circulate work that readers might not otherwise be able to access. If your institution does subscribe to the journal, please access it via that link. Please cite as Pratt, A. C. (2012). "The cultural and creative industries: organisational and spatial challenges to their governance." Die Erde 143(4): 317-334 IMPORTANT: When referring to this paper, please check the page numbers in the journal published version and cite these. The Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) have a distinct geography, one that is dynamic and that has until recently been poorly documented and underexplained. The aim of this paper is to briefly review the changing terrain of analyses of the CCI in order to turn an analytic focus onto the challenge of policy-making in the field of the cultural and creative industries. The structure of the paper follows four steps. First, we outline the shifting nature of governance in nation states and regions; second, we highlight the corresponding shifts occurring in the organisation of the cultural and creative industries, and the field of cultural policy; third, we consider the need to resolve governance and the cultural and creative industries. Finally, we outline some responses to this challenge.